For many years I have been collecting found tapes; primarily voice recordings, audio letters, home karaoke and recordings made by amateur tape recording enthusiasts. I particularly enjoy the unguarded and non-deliberate parts of these recordings when people are testing the equipment or have forgotten its still recording. Almost every recording begins with the ubiquitous: testing, testing, 1,2,3. This one recurring phrase appears in my collection time and time again in an array of different voices, accents and languages. This piece is literally a test signal - a collage of recordings of microphone tests compiled from my personal archive.

Commissioned by Pixel Palace for Basic FM.

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Artist/Composer: Mark Vernon
Date: November 2011
Keywords: test; signal.mark; vernon; basic; fm; newcastle; tyneside; cinema

Creative Commons license: Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0

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Reviewer: padge - - March 3, 2012
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Interesting and enjoyable. Each sample from a different tape, and each sample recorded in a different stage of fidelity. I would love to listen to more from this artist's collection. ............padge.........